Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Mollory

Two movies that deal well with the inward journey a character takes are Identity and The Uninvited. Both deal with characters that aren't the typical characters. Both their characters start off crazy and then end crazy. The characters behave like Mollory.
In Identity, the main character is a man on death row. Then the movie switches scenes and perspective to eleven different characters. Each has their own back story, but each are trapped in this hotel. At the hotel people start to die. Now as this story is going on you have the story about the man on death row. Only later in the movie do you find out that those eleven people and the man on death ow are the same. The man has multiply personality disorder and those other people are his personalities. The arguement was made in class that Mollory and the other guy were the same people. That Mollory part should go second. Well this moive plays with the different perspectives and later tells you that they are all the same person.
In The Univited, the main character is in an insane house we don't know why or when. She is released from the hospital and is sent home. There she is forced to remember what happened to her in the past. As she searches for the truth, the crazier she gets. The character's mind starts to play tricks on her by summoning her dead mother, boyfriend, and sister. It is only in the end that we realize the truth. By that time she has gone completely insane again. This movie reminds me of the second portion of Mollory more than the first. She starts off normal, like the man. As both get closer to the truth their minds play tricks on them. By the end both are crazy and making no sense.
Both these movies have similar aspects of the book within them. Both using different parts as well. I thought it was a nice representation of what we were talking about.

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